VERY soon, George Osborne will announce even deeper cuts to Government budgets in his determined quest to disarm and subjugate the least well-off citizens of this country, and make them pay even more for the criminal “lining of the pockets” of his friends and colleagues who control the financial scaffolding of Britain – the rich and the powerful who contribute to the Tory party.

Neil Kinnock said the following will happen if this country elected a Tory Government. He said this not two years ago but 30 years ago. Neil, clearly a visionary, and of course a deep-thinking and vitriolic Welshman, warned the British electorate, before they elected Maggie Thatcher: “I warn you not to be ordinary. I warn you not to be young. I warn you not to fall ill. I warn you not to get old.”

He prefaced these iconic words with: “I warn you that you will have pain – when healing and relief depend upon payment.

“I warn you that you will have ignorance – when talents are untended and wits are wasted, when learning is a privilege and not a right.

“I warn you that you will have poverty – when pensions slip and benefits are whittled away by a Government that won’t pay in an economy that can’t pay.

“I warn you that you will be cold – when fuel charges are used as a tax system that the rich don’t notice and the poor can’t afford.”

He continued: “I warn you that you must not expect work – when many cannot spend, more will not be able to earn. When they don’t earn, they don’t spend. When they don’t spend, work dies.

“I warn you not to go into the streets alone after dark or into the streets in large crowds of protest in the light.”

He went on (and trade unions please note): “I warn you that you will be quiet – when the curfew of fear and the gibbet of unemployment make you obedient.

“I warn you that you will have defence of a sort – with a risk and at a price that passes all understanding.

“I warn you that you will be home-bound – when fares and transport bills kill leisure and lock you up. I warn you that you will borrow less – when credit, loans, mortgages and easy payments are refused to people on your melting income.”

Was this said last week, no, it was said 30 years ago.

“I warn you not to be ordinary. I warn you not to be young. I warn you not to fall ill. I warn you not to get old.”

Who said that this Government, led by Cameron, Osborne, Hunt and Duncan-Smith were not spawned by Thatcher?

The Labour Party in the guise of Ed Miliband and Ed Balls have to be very careful they don’t fall into the same quagmire that this current Government is drowning in. Recently Labour shadow Chancellor Ed Balls appears not to rule out all same measures taken in recent years by this current Government and which Neil Kinnock recognised about 30 years ago would bring the country and its citizens to its knees by the Tories.

Ed Miliband and Ed Balls will have to do some deep thinking of their own if they are to regain the support of the electorate, more of the same will not do it, clear water between the parties is necessary if Labour are to win the next election.

Trefor Bond

Caerphilly

CO2 benefits environment

PAUL SELIGMAN (You say, June 19) says that Ron Page and others are burying their heads in the sand about the reality of climate change.

Actually, Paul, climate change is a natural phenomenon. Historically, the Earth’s climate has cycled between ice-free ages and ice ages. We are still coming out of the last ice age; the ice has been melting and moving north for the last 16,000 years.

However, it’s not the reality of climate change that’s the issue here, it’s the hypothesis that CO 2 emissions cause global warming.

Despite Al Gore’s propaganda campaign, predictions based on this hypothesis have so far been wrong. In fact there has been no global warming for more than a decade; instead, we have experienced record low temperatures and three severe winters at a time when the CO 2 level is the highest in human history!

A graph plotting CO 2 levels against temperature for the past billion years clearly shows there is no correlation between the Earth’s surface temperature and CO 2 concentration in the atmosphere (Dr Vincent Gray, Historical CO 2 levels, June 2013).

For example, 250-320 million years ago the CO 2 concentration was half what it is today but the temperature was 10 degrees centigrade higher than today; 35 to 100 million years ago, a high temperature went with a declining CO 2 concentration.

Dr Gray concludes that increase in CO 2 is actually beneficial to the “environment”.

If Dr Gray is right, and his evidence is persuasive, the UK will have wasted billions of pounds on subsidies, damaged much of British industry and plunged millions of people into fuel poverty on the basis of a false hypothesis.

Bryan D Prescott

Caerphilly

Surgery at wrong time

UPON reading Mrs Fermandell’s letter about the bus services being altered, I would like to put my fivepenn’orth in as I was unable to get to the bus users’ surgery.

As someone who works Monday to Friday and gets four buses a day most of the time, I am really annoyed by the fact that the surgery is held when the majority of users are actually working at this time.

The people who are able to attend these surgeries are either pensioners, parents with young children or part-time workers. So in the end the people who have to travel for work are not allowed to have their say.

It will appear that in the future people will be deserting the buses for cars, then there will too many of them on the road, so Cardiff Bus will moan that they will lose money because there are not enough passengers to make the service viable.

I was under the impression that the Government was trying to encourage more people to take the bus, but obviously they won’t be able to as there won’t be any.

I just hope that, unlike Mrs Fermandell, who will possibly have to give up her job due to not having a bus on her route in future, my buses will still be running so I can get to work.

I also hope that the ones to and from Cardiff Bay are much larger than at present, due to the number of people travelling to visit the area in the nice weather.

A 22-seater bus is just not enough every 20 minutes at rush hour in the evenings.

Mrs J Winter

Cardiff

Can gel deter gull menace?

I read in the national press last week (Daily Telegraph, June 22) that council officers in Bath have smeared a number of rooftops with a gel that discourages seagulls from nesting.

Apparently, seagulls hate the smell of the gel because it makes them think the building is on fire.

The plague of urban seagulls is a long-term nuisance in Barry – not helped by residents who persist in feeding them when these birds are quite capable of scavenging for their own food.

Seagulls are protected under the 1981 Wildlife Act, but their aggressive habits have discouraged smaller birds – goldfinches, greenfinches, chaffinches and house sparrows – from using feeding boxes in my garden.

I am sure other local people have encountered the same problem.

Perhaps the Vale of Glamorgan council could issue new guidance on the feeding of seagulls and also contact Bath city council with a view to assessing whether the gel they are using might be utilised in combating the seagull nuisance in this area.